9,115
Equivalent Population
CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
Over 2,000 million people in the world live without access to a basic drinking water service, and 3,6 billionhave no access to a basic sanitation service, resulting in avoidable deaths, chronic disease, fewer hours of education and low productivity.
ACCIONA has positioned itself as a key player in the water treatment sector. Its innovative management seeks to resolve the challenges with respect to the shortage of water resources.
CLIMATE ACTION
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
The generation and use of energy accounts for 35 % of total greenhouse gas emissions in the world. This activity is the largest contributor to global warming. Investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other low-carbon technologies will continue to be essential to meet the emerging needs of humanity and to minimize their negative impact on the environment.
ACCIONA considers the fight against climate change and its effects to be a strategic priority. The company works to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in order to contribute to the progress of society and respond to the main challenges of sustainable development in the areas of infrastructure, water and energy, leading the transition to a low-carbon economy.
The town of Toro is located on a hill at whose feet the river Duero flows. The heart of an eminently cattle raising and farming area, it is expanding heavily in the wine producing sector. New sources for the town’s economic development are growing tourism and the renewable energy industry. Another town in the province of Zamora, Corrales, is also managed from Toro.
Since 2021 ACCIONA have implemented a real-time sensor-based monitoring system for the city’s main urban services, making Toro one of the most advanced smart cities in Europe.
The work centre currently employs 10 workers who ensure that the Service works correctly, with the different functions each has, amongst which are subscriber management, meter reading, water quality control, repairing faults, building new systems and connections, maintaining catchments and the W.W.T.S., etc.
The supply infrastructure that ACCIONA runs consists of modern catchment facilities in the Eras de Santa Catalina district, altered and improved in the last year by ACCIONA through being awarded thereto.
The supply pipes are fairly old although they are currently being renewed for new, more suitable cast iron pipes in view of the town’s peculiarity, the wine cellars that were dug out by our ancestors for making the district’s renowned wines.
General Information
- Client: Toro Town Council
- Population: 9,115 inhabitants
- Location: Zamora, Spain
- Average volume distributed (m3/day): 4,100
Key points
Services included:
- Systems maintenance:
- Distribution (km): 45.
- Sewerage (Km): 40.
- Meter reading: 24,560
- Leak searching (Km per year): 120
- Water quality control (total analyses per year): 224+ disinfection control
- Emergency service: 365 days
- Subscriber management
- Hydraulic works
Origin of the water
- Two own boreholes, 180 m3/h each 135 m deep
- Storage capacity, 4000 m3, semi-underground tanks
- Overhead tank, 460 m3
- Pre-chlorination in semi-underground tanks and post-chlorination in the overhead tank
WWTS
- Design flow (m3/day): 4,848
- Equivalent population: 25,000
- Pre-treatment: Storm water abatement well, automatic coarse waste removal, fines screening, sand trap-grease trap
- Secondary treatment: Biological treatment with oxidation channel with carousel type nitrification-denitrification (two reactors) and secondary settling (two)
- Sludge treatment: Thickener, dehydration by two centrifuges
- Residual pumps: Two in sewerage system